SPACE SCIENTISTS have discovered evidence of the first exomoon – a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers say the mysterious space object belongs to the exoplanet Kepler-1625b ...
So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...
The new results come from a concerted exomoon hunt Teachey and Kipping conducted using data from Kepler, which has discovered about 70 percent of the 3,800 known exoplanets to date. Kepler finds ...
Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...
Scientists have found what could be the first confirmed exomoon—a moon orbiting a planet outside our own solar system—and it appears to be absolutely huge. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ...
The discovery of the first potential exomoon has astronomers scratching their heads. It’s the size of Neptune, and its planet is the same size as Jupiter but ten times the mass. It’s also made of gas.
Have astronomers just found the first-ever exomoon, a lunar companion of a planet orbiting another star? Definitely maybe. If confirmed, this discovery would challenge scientists’ current ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time, astronomers have discovered what could be an exomoon, a moon outside our solar system. The so-called exomoon, which is estimated to be the size of Neptune, ...
Researchers from Columbia University think that they may have found what could be the first confirmed exomoon one day.Credit: NASA Astronomers say they may have found the first confirmed exomoon, or ...
At this point, we’ve spotted thousands of planets orbiting other stars. But we still don’t have a good picture of whether exosolar systems are similar to our own Solar System. Things like asteroids ...
The far-off moon is believed to be roughly the size of Neptune... SPACE SCIENTISTS have discovered evidence of the first exomoon – a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers say ...